[mythtv-users] Enabling XvMC

[Tom Lichti]

nik gibson wrote:
> Yep,
> 
> It looks like it was library linking problems, I tracked it down with 
> ldconfig -v.  Now I have Xvmc working and it looks like garbage, nice 
> low CPU utulization but the OSD is greyscale and with movement I get 2 
> big lines (as if the screen is breaking) across the picture. 
> Alot of work for a really crappy payoff.  I'm starting to get 
> demoralized.  Any idea why the Xvmc picture is bad?  I've tried every 
> possible nvidia-setting.

Sounds like you are describing 'tearing'. See this page: 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frame_display_timing#Side_Effects_of_Poor_Timing

Tom